BPI-GA

Thank you to all Addiction Professionals!!! We ARE amazing, too!

Stigma is a version of shaming in my view. If a person is grappling with the impacts of addiction, it seems to me that the 1st job of any caregiver is to demonstrate COMPASSION, not contempt. This is a chronic disease frequently treated as acute. This has to change right here & right now!

Opioid deaths play 2nd fiddle to COVID-19. Despite increases in the former, little emphasis on overdoses gets the attention warranted.

This is no time to relax one's personal protection in public settings.

Imagine the possibilities of testing children (BEFORE) they go to school in the morning? What a great way to protect families AND get their education so critical in the world today!!! Let's get the cost down so this is a doable (right here & right now) option pre-vaccine.

This is a very useful newsletter for those interested in the status of vaccine developments, etc.